Now, I know that mine is an unpopular opinion, and that most of my fellow Americans are preparing to be productiveless this Thursday and Friday as the drama of “Will underdog liberal arts school beat sports-factory mega-university?” unfolds.

Everybody’s been scrambling to fill out their tournament brackets, and enter pools, neither of which I’ve ever done for this sporting event. I’m not entering any pools, but I did fill out a bracket – and here’s how & why I made my picks.

Well, this morning on Twitter, I saw a social media acquaintance of mine, Steph (@stephandstuff, BTW a great follow!), bragging about her NCAA bracketology skills. Both she and another good Twitter friend of mine, Krystle (@TarheelKrystle), will probably get on my case as I relentlessly mock basketball while the tournament is on.

I also remembered my mother once telling me that there was a teacher at the high school where she used to work who’d enter the weekly college football pool amongst the faculty and staff based on the relative quality of the schools’ history departments.

Thus far, this approach is 100% accurate as in one of the “First Four” play-in games, Albany (104) defeated unranked Mount St. Mary’s. One of tonight’s play-in games features two history-ranked opponents: Iowa (42) vs. Tennessee (84). Iowa is my pick to advance to the round of 64.

Bracketologists should find it child’s play to fill this in on a blank sheet. Here goes:

I’m not wagering any money based on this, and I sure as heck don’t encourage anybody to either, but it will be interesting to see how I do versus actual basketball fans.

Hopefully I get some props from Krystle for putting her North Carolina Tar Heels “historically” through to the quarter finals. Oh, and Steph? Tell Louisville to improve their history department if they want to get past the second round on my bracket next year!

"[I]f we fail, then the whole world,…all that we have known and cared for…will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that…men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'” — Winston S. Churchill, June 18, 1940